At least 70 journalists have died in Algeria since 1993. Foreign journalists were forbidden to leave their hotels in Algiers without an armed escort for protection against attack. That's the government line. More than likely, it's also to keep them from having a chat with the bad guys. Journos caught sneaking out without their baby-sitters are deported and not let in again.
You must understand that it isn't completely your skin they are trying to save. Since outside hacks have such high PR value when dead, the GIA gets all dreamy eyed and weak in the knees thinking of your recently butchered carcass on the cover of Newsweek. If they have to take out an entire post office, office building or nursery school to get you, that's okay, too.
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